Internal Work

Heh. I just made a physics reference. Anyway, all the work being done on the house so far is internal (electrical is being upgraded & termite damage in the bathroom subflooring has been repaired). The bathroom should be finished soon & I will have pictures then. I've begun moving stuff into the shed (aka, the kidnap room) - nothing is going into the house until the floors are refinished. When you see pictures of the inside of the shed, you will understand why it's called the kidnap room...

Blame Canada

Brrr.

It's been pretty cold this past week here in SoCal - overnight lows in the 40's; daytime highs in 60's - all due to a cold front from Canada.

Thanks, Canada!

Brrr.

Potential Curb Appeal of Casa Lola

It's a little curb apalling now, but I hope y'all see the same potential that I do. :)

Some pics of the exterior - these are the ones I have handy. The first is a scan of the picture from the realtor flyer and the other two are lo-res pics also from the realtor...I,um, forgot to take pics of the outside. oops! There will be interior pics in the next few days as I begin to paint.

Click on this one for some notes:

My first purchase!

I don't have a major home improvement center close to me, but I do have an OSH. I went to get paint supplies and to check out what they had in a general sense. I know I need some lighting for the outdoors and when I saw this guy, I couldn't leave it:


Is it weird to name an outdoor lighting fixture? I think I'll call him Malibu.

Also, I only had a dinky, 6ft "apartment" tape measure and my utility knife never appeared after my move to Cali so I got those too:



My utility knife has flowers. I think I love OSH.
:)

Damn Internet Explorer

I use Firefox exclusively at home (b/c I hate Microsoft products). At work, we are forced to use IE and only IE. The blog looks funny, nay, ugly on IE here at work (at least on these computers). I'm not sure why, since it looked just fine on Firefox at home, and I'm not going to even try to figure it out. So for best viewing, use Firefox. Or Opera. (which you should be using anyway).

Starter Home

Yes, I've bought a house! It's a 1915 Craftsman in Pasadena. It's small, with a small yard. It needs a bunch of work (which is how I could afford a house in this crazy California housing market). So it's a starter home (welcome to the world of equity!). Pictures will be posted later this week. It's exciting & scary.

aw, crap, I gotta pack & move again.

Still, yay! It's worth it.